Shealy CN, Preito A, Burton CV, Long D: Articular Nerve of Lushka Rhizotomy for the Relief of Back and Leg Pain. In: Proceedings of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Los Angles, April 10, 1973.

Burton CV: The Physician and Voluntary Consensus Standards Development. In: Proceedings of the Second Annual AAMI/FDA Conference on Medical Device Regulation, Washington, D.C., November 20-21, 1975, Published for the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, Arlington, Virginia, 1976.

Burton CV: Medical Device Legislation: A Neurosurgeon’s Critique of the System. In: Proceedings: The Clinical Evaluation for Medical Devices, Washington, D.C., April 28, 1976, Published by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, Arlington, Virginia, Medical Instrumentation Series AAMI-101, 1976.

Shealy CN, Preito A, Burton CV, Long D: Articular Nerve of Lushka Rhizotomy for the Relief of Back and Leg Pain. In: Proceedings of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Los Angles, April 10, 1973.

Burton CV: The Physician and Voluntary Consensus Standards Development. In: Proceedings of the Second Annual AAMI/FDA Conference on Medical Device Regulation, Washington, D.C., November 20-21, 1975, Published for the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, Arlington, Virginia, 1976.

Burton CV: Medical Device Legislation: A Neurosurgeon’s Critique of the System. In: Proceedings: The Clinical Evaluation for Medical Devices, Washington, D.C., April 28, 1976, Published by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, Arlington, Virginia, Medical Instrumentation Series AAMI-101, 1976.

Burton CV: Spinal Imaging: A Modern Inconvenience? In Genent HK (ed): Spinal Update 1987, University of California, Radiology Research and Education Foundation, San Francisco, University of California Press, 1987.

Burton CV, Heithoff KB, Schellhas KP: Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Evaluation of the Failed Back Surgery Syndrome. In Genant HK (ed): Spinal Update 1987, University of California, Radiology Research and Education Foundation, San Francisco, University of California Press, 1987.

Burton CV: Clinical Review of the Failed Back Syndrome. In Genant HK (ed):Spinal Update 1987, University of California, Radiology Research and Education Foundation, San Francisco, University of California Press, 1987.

Burton CV: Reducing the Cost of Low Back Pain. In Genant HK (ed): Spinal Update 1987, University of California, Radiology Research and Education Foundation, San Francisco, University of California Press, 1987.

Burton CV: Fusion: Where its Been and Where its Going. In Weinstein JN (ed): The Lumbar Spine, Published by the Int. Soc. for Study of the Lumbar Spine, Philadelphia, Saunders, 1990.

Burton CV: How can Atheletes Potentiate Their Spines for the Future?: Eugonomics-The Next Step Beyond Ergonomics. In Hochschuler SH (ed): Spinal Injuries in Sports, SPINE: State of the Art Reviews 4 (2):297-304, Philadelphia, Hanley and Belfus, 1990.

Burton CV: How can Atheletes Potentiate Their Spines for the Future?:Eugonomics-The Next Step Beyond Ergonomics. In Hochschiler SH (ed): The Spine in Sports, Philadelphia, Hanely and Belfus, 1990.

Burton, CV: Mengele In America: Human Experimentation And The Walter Reed Connection. In the Journal of Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine, 2(3):271-277 (2011), published 2012.129.

Burton CV: Bone Morphogenic Protein-2: Modern “Mouse Milk”?, In the Journal of Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine, 2(3): 267-270 (2011), published in 2012.

Publications In Preparation and in Press:Multi-level Spine Fusion as a Primary Treatment for Low Back Pain
Prognosis for Patients With Genomic Spine Disorders
Tools for the Skilled Spine Surgeon
Spine Decompression and Stabilization for Spinal Stenosis Using Titanium Posterior Interbody Threaded Fusion Cages.
The Role of Collagen IX in Promoting Disc Degeneration
The Origin of the Fiberoptic Surgical Headlight

Informatives Published on www.burtonreport.com from January 1, 2000 to January 1, 2016

Informatives on Health Care

The British National Health Service
Conflicts of Interest in Health Care
The Demeaning of Medicine
Ethics and Medical Practice
“Falling Into Disuse”
Health Care: A Rational Approach
Healthcare and Restaurants
Information and the Use of Information
Managed Health Care
The History of Managed Health Care in The United States
Medical Savings Accounts
Medicare
The “Mongo Mind-Set” in Health Care
The “New Guinea Syndrome” in Health Care
Patient Privacy
Patient Independence from the “System”
Peer Review
Socialized Health Care
Worker’s Compensation

Informatives on Forensic Medicine

Accountability
The Balance Between Regulation and Freedom
Death and Dignity
Death and Guns
Death Penalty and the Xylotyl
The Xylotyl Revisited
Effect of Injury
Ethics and Forensic Medicine
The Expert Witness
Human Experimentation and Plutonium
Informed Consent
International Terrorism: Editorial
Medical Malpractice Relating To Spine Care
Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform
Misadventures and Negligence
The Pirates of Peter the Great: Reverse Engineering in the Soviet Union
Science and the Courtroom
Standards of Care
The “Paper-Thin” Skull

Informatives on the Lumbar Spine

Planet Earth and the Gravity of the Situation
The Basics of Spine Care
The Consumer’s Guide to a Healthy Spine
Low Back School
The Athlete’s Guide To A Healthy Spine
Pilots and Low Back Pain
Restorative, Non-Invasive Spine Care
The History Of Spinal Traction/ Distraction
The Sister Kenny Institute Gravity Lumbar Reduction Therapy Program (GLR)
Modern Spinal Unloading and Stretching Utilizing Anti-Gravitational Traction
The Spine Savings Account Philosophy
Chemonucleolysis with Chymopapain
Discectomy
Epidural Steroid Injections
Intradiscal Thermocoagulation (IDET)
Minimally Invasive Restorative Spine Care
Radio-Frequency Facet Nerve Blocks
Prolotherapy
Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty
Editorial on Minimally Invasive Procedures
Pain Management Clinics and “Procedure Mills”
Myelography and Neurotoxic Substances
Neurotoxic Substances
Overview of Spine Surgery
How To Find A Good Spine Surgeon
The Risks Of Spine Surgery
The Basics of Spine Surgery
Artificial Discs
The History of Lumbar Spine Stabilization
“Fusion”: What Is It?
Spine Stabilization With Pedicle Screw Instrumentation
The “Transitional Syndrome”
Rigid Fusion versus Flexible Stabilization
The Future Of Spine Stabilization
Restorative Spine Surgery
Stabilizing the Multi-Level Degenerative Spine
Strut Stabilization (The “Physiologic” Stabilization)
Cage Stabilization Review
The Concept of the Carpenter And The Nail
The Cost Of Spinal Stabilization
Why Back Surgery Fails
The Salvage Of Failed Back Surgery Cases
Lumbar “Fusion”
Why Back Surgery Fails
The Salvage Of Failed Back Surgery Cases
Non-Invasive Restorative Spine Care
Minimally Invasive Spine Care
Pathophysiology: The “Clinical Cascade”
Lateral Spinal Stenosis
The Human Nervous System
Nerve Injury
The “Giraffe Neck” Phenomenon in Medicine
On Disc Degeneration and Back Pain
Juvenile Discogenic Disease and “Degenerative Disc Disease”
Juvenile Discogenic Disease; What is it?
Genetic Considerations of Spine Disease
Non-Invasive Treatment of Genomic Spine Disease
Surgical Management of Genomic Spine Disease
Trauma in the Patient with Juvenile Discogenic Disease
Overview of Adhesive Arachnoiditis
Anatomy of Adhesive Arachnoiditis
Nomenclature of Arachnoiditis
Classification of Arachnoiditis
Pantopaque® and Human Experimentation
Pantopaque® and Human Experimentation
The Subarachnoid Space
Neurotoxic Substances and Adhesive Arachnoiditis
Myelography and Neurotoxic Substances
The Lipiodol Story
Epidural Steroids
Epidural Injection of the Lumbar Spine
The Foix-Alajouanine Syndrome
Smoking and Adhesive Arachnoiditis
The History of the Challenge of the Lumbar Spine
The Farfan “Expedition” Spine Meetings
The History of International Society for Study of the Lumbar Spine
The Origin of the North American Spine Society
Eugonomics versus Ergonomics: New Thoughts for a New Millennium
Neurostimulation for the Relief of Intractable Pain
The Evolution of Neurostimulation
History of Neuroaugmentive Devices
Neurostimulation and the Nervous System: Theories of Pain
A Glossary of Spinal Stimulation Devices
Smoking, Cigarettes, And The Human Spine
Spine Tumors

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